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Think or Swim on ubuntu 17.10

I really wish TOS would distinguish themselves from the other trading service and support Linux. Regardless, I have TOS running on 17.10. Here is how I did it. The majority of the instructions are from the TOS website with a minor change or two. Just to be clear this the same as all the other ubuntu directions, but I just want to make sure if someone was having an issue on 17.10 they could find it.

Load your system with Java 8

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team/java &&

sudo apt-get update &&

sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

You might need to install the following if you get this error: “No suitable Java Virtual Machine could be found”: sudo apt install openjdk-8-jre

4. When you are going thru the wizard, install the thinkorswim software here:

I believe that is the trick that worked for me, was to install the app into: /usr/local/bin/thinkorswim The installer should start the application for you. The TOS small box will pop up and say that it is installing updates. This seems to take a long time, like 5 minutes? So go do something else for a few. Then you should get login screen after a while.

When it’s time to shutdown and start from scratch use:

sudo ./thinkorswim

Note: If you find any discrepancies or tips please leave them in the comments. I will do my best to post them, as this blog post and the other Ubuntu / TOS get a lot of hits, there are people out there that need hits.

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I have been able to get TOS to run however it does not create a desktop icon and sudo ./thinkorswim results in ‘command not found’. I am a beginner level linux user so i am sorry if im missing something very basic, but could you provide some insight on how to create a desktop executable or get the launcher to function properly? Thank you!!!

So I don’t have a desktop icon. So I run TOS from the terminal.
Cd ~
nano .bashrc
at the very bottom put the following alias alias TOS=’ /home/{username}/thinkorswim/thinkorswim’
save file
then type “source bash” to refresh the bash
then from any terminal just type TOS